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Bottled water companies being criticized by environmentalists and anti-corporate activists, saying that they are taking much and profiting from natural resources and that packaging wastes are added to their products. Bottled water companies are enhancing their products by adding vitamins and other nutrients. Other issues regarding the industry are discussed.

An overview of Transat's management is presented. Transat, a travel company, acquired Thomas Cook's Canadian travel agency network in 2006. The company also invested in a Spanish hotel chain. Jean-Marc Eustache, Transat's chairman, also discusses the company's launching in 1987.

Glenn Murphy, chief executive officer of Gap Inc., is facing the task of restoring the company's profitability. The company's earnings per share and stock price have increased since the Canadian was recruited by the struggling clothing company in 2007.

A nuclear renaissance is taking place in Canada and elsewhere, and nuclear organizations and companies are spendig millions of dollars to promote a repackaged nuclear energy industry that can address the concert about climate change, air quality and blackouts. The history and forecasts and trends in the growing nuclear energy sector of Canada is presented.

Increasing usage radio frequency identification devices in consumer goods supply chain management and disadvantages associated with this are discussed.

Onex Corp's brand image has been associated with it's chief executive officer Gerald Schwartz since years. The company is now planning an image change for which it has employed the services of public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard. The public relations efforts that need to be implemented by Onex for an image makeover are discussed.

The growth of Teacher's Private Capital, Canada's most influential private-equity (PE) player is discussed, describing how Jim Leech led the firm to generate huge profit for teachers. Public-sector pension funds investing huge money in PE firms who can be cheaters also, is a growing concern in Canada.

Gerry Schwartz, the Midas of Onex, is going through a midlife crisis as his company is facing a bad phase.

The various types of nursing home facilities are discussed.

The Tata Nano is notable for the way in which it has turned the traditional approach to making cars on its head. The idea for the car started in the late 1990's when Tata Group's chairman, Ratan Tata, started thinking of a car that would appeal to India's middle class. Laying out general goals for each part and asking several suppliers to submit designs that meet or exceed the goals was key to the revolutionary design process.

LET US SET THE SCENE, BECAUSE THE SCENE IS IMPORTANT. An Indigo cafe, jazz on the sound system. There's a brunette in a leather armchair reading Edward de Bono. Couples [...]

IF CROCODILE DUNDEE MADE THE SUBURBS SAFE FOR ALL-wheel-drive wagons, the latest confluence of Hollywood and the Motor City is the H2 Hummer, an only slightly domesticated version of the [...]

PRETEND, FOR A MOMENT, YOU'RE AN ORDInary person. I'm not talking about an 'ordinary' corporate vice-president who pulls down a comfortable income and shoots 18 holes of golf every other [...]

IF THERE WERE SUCH A THING AS an emporium just for logos--a place where the registered trademark had been separated from the thing itself, it would look like the warehouse [...]

HOW'S THIS FOR A GEAC NEWS FLASH? EARLIER in the spring, the Markham, Ont.-based high-tech conglomerate, flush with new executives and a chastened sense of its own destiny, decided not [...]

Glenn Murphy, to coin a phrase, likes to walk softly and carry a big pestle. Since he took the company public last November, the new chairman and CEO of Shoppers [...]

Macquarie Bank Ltd.'s office in Toronto is a nice little beachhead, having grown from zero employees to more than 30 in three years. The Australian firm is a world leader [...]

If you want to see bars, don't come to Rich Gansheimer's prison in the sleepy port town of Conneaut, in the northeastern corner of Ohio. The medium-security Lake Erie Correctional [...]

'IT WAS CHRISTMAS DAY, 1998, AND I'M IN Cancun with my family. The kids are swimming in the pool. I'm trying to drink my third margarita. I get on the [...]

THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO THINK ABOUT the 20-storey office tower O&Y Properties Corp. is scheduled to begin building in downtown Toronto later this fall. The just-the-facts interpretation goes like [...]

All kids want the stuff they see on TV. Good thing for Mastermind that parents do the buying Scene 1: Toys 'R' Us--the Barbie section, midday. Myles Munshaw and his [...]

GAP CERTIFICATES, bellows the e-mail header, popping open to reveal banks of cc'd names, followed by a 'message' from Janelle McCan, founder of The Gap. It's a special-offer -cum-chain-letter. For [...]

IN THE BIG MONEY/BIG TENSION FIRMAMENT SURROUNDING Toronto's 2008 Olympic bid, two events loom large in the countdown to next July's vote by the International Olympic Committee. The first, hoped [...]

Security, like accounting, is one of those no-news-is-good-news businesses. So it seems appropriate that Dennis Hollingshead, co-founder and chairman of Mytec Technologies Inc., is a man who radiates nothing in [...]

Al Palladini's Pine Tree Lincoln Mercury, its huge lot lined with minivans, pickups and sport utility vehicles, is a family business with flair. Located in Woodbridge, a suburb of Toronto, [...]